LongTimeLurker

It was related to that and the personal popularity of the councillor involved from what I remember, but have forgotten all the gory details. Think there was also a localised Communist vote in the Vale of Leven into the 80s as well.

It was only one scheme that kept voting Communist. Think it was Forgewood.

Don't doubt what you are saying, so that would probably place when Beechwood started to be used in the early 70s rather than the early 60s. Guess the only way to find out for sure if the guy who brought this topic up is still interested in finding out more would be going through old copies of the Alloa Advertiser in a library somewhere.

That definitely sounds like Fairfield Park, so maybe it was later.

...which was because they initially didn't have the full complement of 16 clubs and the potential bottom clubs were probably expecting to always get back in through application anyway until they did. Whitehill Welfare and co are probably kicking themselves right now for not putting in amendments and tidying up the language on that to sixteenth at the last AGM as the wording is clearly a holdover from previous seasons that they probably never expected to be applied in this way. Moral of the story is that you should always read your league's constitution carefully and pay close attention to what is happening at AGMs rather than wanting the meetings to be over as quick as possible.

Presumably that means the back up goalie was already only on an amateur contract, which might say something about the budget this year now that there are no more parachute payments? Will be interesting to see what happens with the Shire over the next few seasons. Think they need to find a way (maybe means a sugar daddy in financial terms, basically) to keep being a promotion challenger to maintain the aura of being a former SPFL club fighting to get back or their natural habitat might eventually be more around the same level as Camelon and Dunipace because Bo'ness United and Lithgae have bigger supports and are likely to rise above them in pecking order terms now that they are senior clubs. The big thing is that I think we can be confident that there will still be a Shire 10 or 20 years from now with the pyramid very much in place on the east coast and that's a good thing. The example of Edinburgh City shows what a well run wee club with no ground of their own can do in that environment, if they get things right on and off the park. Don't think many people would have selected them to be the club most likely to blaze the trail where upwards progression is concerned.

The irony that they would be emulating what the Stasi did to ensure an absence of bias against the SED no doubt escapes them.

What's weird is how Cruz now actively courts Trump's support when it makes him look completely pathetic. It wasn't just the father that Trump went after it was also his wife.

Where did all these moderate secularist democrats we heard so much about back in 2012 disappear to and why were they replaced so quickly on the battlefield by the likes of Al-Nusra and ISIS? The war in Syria has a lot more to do with a rerun of the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood uprising against Hafez Al-Assad and the secular one party state socialism of the Baath party back in the 1980s than a struggle for liberal democracy. As such, both sides are not particularly palatable.

....or your manager is not getting the preseason right.

fixed that for you

Lost 3-2 tonight apparently and 10 points back of EK after 6 games. The slow starts to the season seem to be what let the Shire down in the LL.

If Selkirk's record is expunged from the table so that there are only 15 teams then if the rule states that the bottom club in the table is the one that is subject to relegation it should apply to the fifteenth placed team, because Selkirk are no longer in the LL at that point. If they had phrased it the sixteenth placed team it would be a different story.

All depends how the constitution is worded. If it says bottom club as people have been claiming on here and Selkirk are gone with their record completely expunged then interesting times ahead.

It covers the scenario when there is no champion licensed to be promoted. In that case the last placed team still has to reapply to keep their place, and other clubs can apply as well to take potentially be voted in instead.

...it's making him radge...

This is pure speculation on my part but my guess at how they will do it is that they will find a way to only consider new applications from teams that are playing at tier 6 and are actively challenging for promotion and need to be licensed for that reason. That way they keep a functional pyramid but don't get too many more snouts at the subsidy trough regardless of what happens with the SJFA. Time will tell.

...when 500 Loyalists could walk across the border and take over the village of Clontibret in Co. Monaghan with nobody in authority north or south noticing it was happening. Good luck with those inspections without building a Trump style wall.

Hope the local community doesn't lose access to the ground that has been developed as dismantling that is the obvious way to clear off the debts. They'll only get so much for the floodlights that were being installed and the small seated stand, so the land might have to be flogged off as well if the club own it? If the locals are happier following a local amateur club with local amateur players then as far as I can see it's not the end of the world if that's what football in Selkirk revolves around in future.

Think the local Vics amateur team wound up fulfilling a Scottish Cup fixture that season so Selkirk FC could keep their SFA membership with now infamous consequences: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/30379719

There was nothing to stop 160 or so SJFA members starting licensing all at once after Tom Johnston announced that the SJFA wanted in. That made the current setup that was set with a very low set of requirements so the likes of Golspie Sutherland could do it untenable. When it gets lifted the requirements will no doubt be tightened up considerably to ensure there is no massive influx, but it's unlikely that tier six promotion contenders will be turned away.

Should've went with Stratheltico FC or United Could do a lot worse than Strathclyde as a name. There was a junior club called that at one point in the east end of Glasgow close to Parkhead.

The Edusport becoming Glasgow United with more Scottish players info is quite interesting. Not sure that name would really work for a team with plans to play at Strathclyde Park though.

It's the inability of a club to attract new players through open training sessions that is most embarrassing for the LL. Even with Hawick relegated, there are still at least two too many Borders clubs involved for what that region of the country can sensibly sustain at a tier 5 level.